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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Monday, November 7, 2016 Page 10 with 52 occupancies or rooms or patients you could say within 150 feet, our initial isolation distance for that would be 330 feet in every direction so if you were to put this anywhere on that parcel, we would be having to evacuate all of the people within that building to get them into a safe area. That's if the gas well were to malfunction. That's the one main concern. Council President Saponaro asked, Chief, when you say malfunction, are you talking about any malfunction or something that's major or any type of protocol? Chief Carcioppolo replied, it's hard to say. It's a mechanical device. When they fail sometimes they fail catastrophically and sometimes they don't have as large of a problem but either way and even if it was not, let's say there was no fire involved, it was just a gas. That gas could have an ill effect on tenants there because the geriatric population typically does have respiratory or cardiac problems. Those problems would be exacerbated by any types of hazardous materials that would leak potentially from the wellhead. Council President Saponaro asked, so you would have to evacuate in any situation if there was an issue there, you would evacuate all of them? Is that what you are saying? Chief Carcioppolo replied, if there was a situation where we had a confirmed leak, then yes, we would follow the emergency response guidebook and that would be our most pressing issue to get 50 some people out of the structure. With it being an assisted living, I do agree with Mr. Farmer's comments about having this living available in the community and it is available on the north end at this time, so it does offer that to the residents, but that is one serious concern and then also the impact it would have on my department as far as how many calls a year we would have to that specific occupancy. Based off of our current performance with assembly spaces like that, it would yield another 50-75 calls a year which would be representative of about 5-8% of our call volumes. That's all I have. If you want, I can give this report to Mary Beth to send out to all of you. Council President Saponaro stated, that would be great. Thank you Chief. Is there anyone else who wants to speak on this or has a comment? There were no further comments on Open Portion. QUESTIONS/COMMENTS BY COUNCILBOARDS/COMMISSIONS Mr. Marrie stated, it might be a great facility like Jim Farmer said to have that in our Village. There's no doubt about that. But my concern is the fact that, are we opening up Pandora's Box? What about everybody else that lives on SOM who want to turn their property into, well I will call it, commercial, other than residential. That's my concern. Are we letting ourselves wide open for a lot of changes along SOM? I would hate to see it look like Mayfield Road. Thank you.